Old Order Amish: Their Enduring Way of Life

by Donald B. Kraybill

Book Overview

Here at last is an authentic portrait of the Amish, in striking photographs and honest accounts of their daily concerns and enduring traditions. Photographer Lucian Niemeyer earned the trust and friendship of Amish families by helping to harvest crops on their farms in Pennsylvania's Lancaster County, site of one of the oldest Amish settlements in North America. After "many backbreaking days" in the fields, he gained acceptance in a community that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801844266
• ISBN13: 9780801844263
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 3.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.9" x 11.8"

Customer Reviews

Old Order Amish

Old Order Amish: Their Enduring Way of Life, explores the Amish in modern American in general, and the settlement of Amish people in Lancaster County Pennsylvania, in particular. This book not only has fascinating text which throws the reader right into the heart of what it means to be Amish, but also has breathtaking photographs of life in and around the village of Intercourse, just some 60 miles west of Philadelphia. The author explores many of the differeent aspects of Amish life, such as: farming, religion, courting, marriage, childbirth, business & industry, education & politics. This book is well worth the price; I thoroughly enjoyed it!